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"According to the UN the number of microplastic particles in the oceans now outnumbers the number of stars in the galaxy. This leads me to wonder what these changes might mean for bubbles

2026 ANAT Synapse resident Elissa Goodrich begins her latest creative research journal entry with these stark statistics.

"In quite a different scale (or realm), I have been exploring the Fluid Dynamics team’s employment of ‘dimensionless’ numbers to create simulations and to define ratios – In our case, when applied to bubbles rising within calm and turbulent water."

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Elissa is working with long time collaborator Prof Richard Manasseh, from the fluid dynamics team at Swinburne University of Technology.

Images: First depictions – Single bubble trajectories on two planes, initial graph, by Ali Heshmati and a sneaky screen shot of some of the Fluid Dynamics team.

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“if you want to achieve change, first of all you have to be change, and that you cannot change anything if you do not change yourself.”
francesca albanese, 'while the world sleeps'

kelli mccluskey fangirls over the un special rapporteur: "I mean, wow, what incredible moral courage and leadership she is showing."
kelli is ANAT's june Q&A guest

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with over 25 years of experience in contemporary experimental art, kelli mccluskey is an award winning artist who co-founded pvi collective in 1998. based in boorloo, kelli is a passionate advocate for emergent artforms and socially engaged practice, regularly speaking on national and international panels and symposia, kelli facilitates playfully participatory discussions on the critical role of arts in society.

kelli is a climate champion for better futures australia, a creative australia peer, a member of educators against sexism [feas], and an advisor for pica’s immersive arts program, boorda yeyi. most importantly, kelli is a trouble maker at heart, good trouble that is.

Images: 1. kelli mccluskey, pvi, photograph peter cheng. 2. francesca albanese. esquerda.net, wikimedia commons / CC BY-SA 2.

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Imagery: ANAT SPECTRA 2025 event imagery courtesy .grim.
1. DAY 1 :: GATHER, UniSC Art Gallery forecourt. 2. DAY 2 :: CONVERSE, Michelle Brown and Enid Guruŋulmiwuy. 3. Tully Arnot, ‘Soft’, 2024, 4K video, sound; 21 mins (looped) Music by Megan Alice Clune. ‘Reciprocity’ installation view UniSC Art Gallery. 4. DAY 1 :: GATHER, Vanessa Tomlinson and Erik Griswold :: ‘30 x 30 Out of Time’. ANAT SPECTRA 2025 was presented by ANAT and UniSC, on Kabi Kabi Country, in the heart of the Sunshine Coast Biosphere Reserve.

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